{"product_id":"in-defense-of-secrets-hardback-9780823289226","title":"In Defense of Secrets (Hardback) 9780823289226","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Defense of Secrets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnne Dufourmantelle (Author), Lindsay Turner (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823289226\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.278 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn an age that prizes political and personal transparency, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in 2017 in an attempt to rescue two children caught in the ocean. Her work lives on, though, in this provocative and necessary book. Through etymologies and case studies, personal history and incisive commentary on contemporary society, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e returns us to the fundamental psychic scene of the secret. The secret, for Dufourmantelle, is not a code to be cracked or a firewall to be penetrated but a dynamic and powerful entity that permits relation and that ensures our humanity.\u003cbr\u003e Tracking the secret though art and literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology, from the Inquisition to the present, Dufourmantelle's writing spirals around the question of the secret's value. In our age, when political and personal transparency seem to be prized above all—lives posted on the Internet, information leaked, whistles blown, taboos absent except with respect to the secret itself—\u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e champions what remains hidden, private, veiled, hushed, just out of sight. The secret is on the side of nature, not science; organic growth, not technology; love's generosity, not knowledge's grasp. \u003cbr\u003e For Dufourmantelle, the secret is a powerful and dynamic thing: deadly if unheard or misused, perhaps, but equally the source of creativity and of ethics. An ethics of the secret, we can hear her say, means listening hard and sensitively, respecting the secret in its secret essence, unafraid of it and open to what it has to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI. Memories of the Secret\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Origins   3\u003cbr\u003e In the Crypt   6\u003cbr\u003e Etymology   8\u003cbr\u003e When the Secret Appears   10\u003cbr\u003e Occult Force   14\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII. The Secret's Passions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lifting the Veil   19\u003cbr\u003e The Unavowable   22\u003cbr\u003e A Treasure, a Poison   25\u003cbr\u003e Genesis   27\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStoria I\u003c\/i\u003e   29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII. Being or Having\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Last Secret   39\u003cbr\u003e The Body \u003ci\u003eau secret\u003c\/i\u003e   41\u003cbr\u003e Eroticism   44\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStoria II\u003c\/i\u003e   47\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStoria III\u003c\/i\u003e   53\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIV. Transparency and Truth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Violations   59\u003cbr\u003e Dissimulations   63\u003cbr\u003e Surveillances   65\u003cbr\u003e Adaptations   67\u003cbr\u003e Mirages   69\u003cbr\u003e Big Data, Hyperconnection, Speed: The Spiral   72\u003cbr\u003e Archives   74\u003cbr\u003e Secret Societies   77\u003cbr\u003e The Unifying Secret   81\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eV. An Ethics of the Secret\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePanopticum\u003c\/i\u003e: Bentham, Kant, Constant   85\u003cbr\u003e Inappropriable   88\u003cbr\u003e Creative Power   90\u003cbr\u003e The Secret of Dreams   92\u003cbr\u003e Sex and Prayer   95\u003cbr\u003e Secret Sideration   97\u003cbr\u003e Jealousies   102\u003cbr\u003e The Conspiracy Theory   105\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eVI. Toward Mystery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Secret Nature   109\u003cbr\u003e Veils   111\u003cbr\u003e Legacies   114\u003cbr\u003e Aside   117\u003cbr\u003e A Part of One's Own   123\u003cbr\u003e Secret of the Prophetic Voice   125\u003cbr\u003e Sacrifice   129\u003cbr\u003e Mystery's Share   133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   139\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   141\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580425826584,"sku":"9780823289226","price":65.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-defense-of-secrets-hardback-9780823289226","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}